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List:       freebsd-hardware
Subject:    Re: nforce2 board - is it asking for trouble?
From:       "Jin Guojun [DSD]" <j_guojun () lbl ! gov>
Date:       2003-11-24 19:51:23
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Louis Munro wrote:

> Hi,
> I will soon be replacing my old pc and I'm looking for advice about the motherboard \
> I should be buying. I'd like to run both windoze (for the games) and FreeBSD on it. \
> Having a rather limited budget I have been looking at some boards with integrated \
> graphics. The only one that seems decent to me is the Asus A7N8X-VM (see \
> http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-VM&langs=01) but it uses the nforce2 \
> chipset and an integrated Geforce4 MX GPU. I've read some of the posts on the list \
> that mention people having problems whith that chipset such as no onboard ethernet \
> support, which I'm willing to live with (I have two other PCI cards I can use for \
> that) but some comments have me confused: should I expect more problems or will it \
> be fine using 4.9 stable and later? Will I have AGP support, 3D acceleration under \
> XFree86 etc?

I do not have VM but I have a bunch of A7N8X and A7N8X-X that works excellent
under 4.8 and 4.9 RELEASEs.

    -Jin

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